Adults: $53 Families of four or more: $40 per ticket LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Season tickets for the 2019 University of Louisville soccer season are on sale now through the Louisville Cardinals Ticket Office.Reserved chairback tickets are priced at $106 for adults $85 for faculty/staff, and family of four or more $85 a ticket. General admission/berm seating is priced at $53 for adults and families of four or more $40 per ticket. The 2019 Louisville Soccer season also marks the launch of a Renewal and New Buyer Incentive Program, which will be announced in full detail on Monday, April 1. All purchases made before April 1 will be auto-enrolled into the program, and anyone who purchases within the incentive program window (dates TBD) will also be eligible.Season tickets packages include all UofL men’s and women’s soccer regular season matches at Dr. Mark and Cindy Lynn Stadium. The 2019 schedules for the Louisville men’s and women’s soccer teams will be announced in the spring.For more information on Louisville soccer season tickets, visit GoCards.com/soccertickets, call 502-GO-CARDS or email tickets@gocards.com. General Admission Bleacher/Berm Adults: $106* Faculty/Staff: $85* Families of four or more: $85 per ticket* Reserved Chairback Season Ticket Prices: * Denotes a required donation (one donation required per account, NOT per ticket): Premium Sections 108-111 = $100 | Preferred Sections 106-107 & 112-113 = $75 Print Friendly Version Purchase Tickets Here Story Linksread more

Story Links She earned her bachelor’s degree in finance in May 2019 and carried a 4.0 cumulative GPA. The University of Louisville’s Celene Funke was selected to the 2019 Google Cloud Academic All-America® Division I first team. She becomes the first two-time Academic All-America selection in program history.Funke (Carmel, Ind.) takes home her second straight Academic All-America honors. She finished her junior season with a team-best 48 runs and stood second with a .324 batting average and 29 stolen bases. Additionally, the speedy centerfielder led the nation and holds Louisville’s single-season record with 13 triples. Funke was named a Google Cloud Academic All-District® All-America third team selection in 2018. The 2019 Google Cloud Academic All-America® Division I Softball Teams feature 21 members with a 4.0 GPA and 31 members with at least a 3.90 GPA as either undergraduate or graduate student-athletes. The 12 members on the first team have an average GPA of 3.99. Print Friendly Versionread more

×Actors Reveal Their Favorite Disney PrincessesSeveral actors, like Daisy Ridley, Awkwafina, Jeff Goldblum and Gina Rodriguez, reveal their favorite Disney princesses. Rapunzel, Mulan, Ariel,Tiana, Sleeping Beauty and Jasmine all got some love from the Disney stars.More VideosVolume 0%Press shift question mark to access a list of keyboard shortcutsKeyboard Shortcutsplay/pauseincrease volumedecrease volumeseek forwardsseek backwardstoggle captionstoggle fullscreenmute/unmuteseek to %SPACE↑↓→←cfm0-9Next UpJennifer Lopez Shares How She Became a Mogul04:350.5x1x1.25×1.5x2xLive00:0002:1502:15 Verizon Will Resell YouTube TV to Wireless, Broadband Customers Across U.S. Verizon Media Said to Be Looking for Tumblr Buyer According to Automattic, it has no plans to reallow porn or other NSFW content on Tumblr.“Today’s announcement is the culmination of a thoughtful, thorough and strategic process,” Verizon Media CEO Guru Gowrappan said in a statement. He called Tumblr a “marquee brand” that has become “home to many creative communities and fandoms.”The Tumblr sale comes after Verizon began pruning the Yahoo-AOL portfolio last year. It sold photo-sharing site Flickr to SmugMug and offloaded Moviefone to Helios & Mathenson Analytics, the parent of struggling theater-subscription service MoviePass.There’s a natural fit between Automattic and Tumblr, which are both aimed at letting individuals and businesses create and manage online communities geared around content. “Tumblr is one of the web’s most iconic brands,” Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg said in a statement. “It is an essential venue to share new ideas, cultures and experiences, helping millions create and build communities around their shared interests.”The deal isn’t officially closed, still subject to usual closing conditions. Automattic’s businesses, in addition to WordPress.com, include WooCommerce, Jetpack, Simplenote, and Longreads.Under Gowrappan, Verzion Media is focusing on news, sports, finance and lifestyle content — as well as utilities like mail — to reach an aggregate base of nearly 1 billion consumers worldwide. Its brands include Yahoo, HuffPost, TechCrunch and AOL. Total Verizon Media revenue in the second quarter of 2019 was $1.8 billion, down 2.9%, as desktop ad sales continue to fall (an improvement over the group’s 7.2% drop in the year-earlier period). Gowrappan took over Verizon Media last fall with the exit of former CEO Tim Armstrong. Back when Yahoo bought Tumblr, then-CEO Marissa Mayer had seen blogging site, founded by David Karp in 2007, as a potential major source of new revenue growth and a way into the social-media space. But that never panned out and less than three years after buying it, Yahoo took impairment charges totaling $482 million for Tumblr. Popular on Variety Verizon Media (formerly called Oath) in December of last year decided to ban adult content from Tumblr — a last-gasp effort in trying to make it a safer place for advertising and coming a month after Apple removed Tumblr’s app from its App Store after child porn was discovered in the app. The move prompted Tumblr’s traffic to drop by nearly one-third. The site in July 2019 had 381 million total visits, down from 521 million in December 2018, according to analytics firm SimilarWeb. Related Verizon announced a deal to sell Tumblr — the blogging site Yahoo acquired for $1.1 billion six years ago — to Automattic, the company that owns and operates online-publishing site WordPress.com.Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the price tag is clearly nowhere near what Yahoo originally paid. Automattic will about $3 million for Tumblr, according to an Axios report citing anonymous sources. Automattic will bring about 200 Tumblr employees on-board with the deal, per the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news.Verizon, which bought Yahoo in 2017, had been looking to unload Tumblr for months, the Journal previously reported. Tumblr hosts some 475 million blogs currently, with a blend of text, images and video content, but neither Yahoo nor Verizon were ever able to figure out how to make it a significant revenue-generating destination.read more

Culottes sound like a trend that sprung out of nowhere. But is one of those 1970s trends that found its way back into the millennial avenues. They are super comfortable, incredibly chic if styled well and can be worn just about anywhere. Stylists and fashion bloggers share few tips on how to style culottes to suit your personality and preference. The professional look: Ditch your basic trousers when going for an office outing or a meeting, and choose a pair of solid culottes instead. Pair them with up with a statement blouse or a modish shirt. To complete the look go for a pair of strappy heels or ballerina flats. Also Read – Add new books to your shelfThe monsoon special: Monsoon can be a little tricky because it’s easy to step on puddles and wet the bottom of your pants. So, the best way to deal it with is by opting for high-waist ankle length culottes in dark tones. You can style these culottes with an off or cold shoulder top to keep it functional and breezy. The brunch edit: Throw in a pair of brightly coloured culottes pants, when planning to go for a sunny afternoon brunch. Team your culottes with a checkered shirt, hat, sunglasses and sneakers to get the effortless chic look. Also Read – Over 2 hours screen time daily will make your kids impulsiveBreak the monotony at work: It’s easy to fall into a routine and keep rotating among your basic formal trousers for work. Culottes are here to change that. You can create an effortless Casual Friday look for work with a pair of culottes. All you need to do is, team it up with a tucked in shirt and a pair of block heels. A sleek messenger bag would be the perfect accessory for this outfit.The vacation look: A fun pair of culottes is a must for your vacation style. Doing rounds these days in culottes is an overlap silhouette that tends to give the illusion of a skirt. You can style those with your favourite text T-shirt knotted in the front and a pair of mules. Fanny packs are trending these days and have rapidly gone from uncool to the ‘it’ accessory. So team one with your culottes on your vacation.For a Sunday brunch: Culottes were probably born exclusively for Sundays. They are comfortable and laid back enough to gel with your weekend vibes. So for your next brunch date, team a pastel colour culottes with a floral top and a pair of fringed earrings. A pair of wedges would give you the perfect relaxed look.read more

2 min read Attend this free webinar and learn how you can maximize efficiency while getting the most critical things done right. Register Now » August 22, 2014 Free Webinar | Sept 5: Tips and Tools for Making Progress Toward Important Goals Keeping hungry lions from attacking farm animals in rural Africa — or anywhere — is no easy feat, especially in the dark. Bright light helps keep the fierce predators at bay, something that’s hard to come by after the sun goes down and you live way off the grid.Many people in remote, impoverished areas of Africa curb lion attacks at night using old-fashioned kerosene lamps. Often, they walk for miles to buy the expensive fossil fuel, which belches poisonous fumes when burned. In the short term, breathing the toxic exhaust causes dizziness and nausea. In the long, it can lead to blood clots that can damage the heart, brain, kidneys and other organs.Clearly, kerosene lamps aren’t an ideal means of fending off the mighty Panthera leo.Related: A Bright Forecast for a Solar Panel Installation FranchiseM-KOPA Solar, a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-backed company based out of Nairobi, Kenya, offers a safer, cleaner and greener solution: a portable solar-powered lighting system that reportedly wards off the big cats.The lightweight solar lighting system — outfitted with a 4-watt solar panel, a USB multi-mobile phone charger, and three brightness-adjustable lights — highlights big changes on the horizon for people in the rural areas of the world’s second-largest continent. Namely, the proliferation of technology in regions where billions struggle to simply survive and our iPhones and Pebbles seem useless.The M-KOPA Solar technology may be more affordable than kerosene, but it’s still not inexpensive for those who need it most.Related: This Night Light Inventor Raised a Quarter Million on KickstarterM-KOPA customers pay 40 Kenyan shillings (about 45 cents) per day to use it, after making a 2,500-shilling ($28.38) deposit. That’s relatively steep, considering that most households in Kenya earn less than $2 per day, according to M-KOPA.Pay-as-you go payments are processed via an embedded mobile SIM card, which, unfortunately, M-KOPA can use to remotely kill the lights if a customer falls behind on payments.For this much-needed technology to reach widespread adoption in East Africa and beyond, the price has to go down. For now, only those who can afford it reap its benefits.Related: Samsung’s Bluetooth-Only ‘Smart Bulb’ Is a Bit Dimread more

5G mobile promises a convergence between mobile and fixed “in a way that hasn’t happened before”, according to Howard Watson, BT Group CIO and CEO of technology, strategy and operators. The technology will also bring about a convergence of mobile and WiFi, Watson told TV Connect attendees yesterday. “This is critical for our agenda,” he said.Watson said that BT is looking to expand its mobile TV offering on the back of its acquisition of EE. BT is looking to bring football to all of EE smartphones, he said.Watson also said that BT will develop its UHD TV offering with the addition of HDR, wider colour gamut and higher frame rates to complement 4K.In the longer term, the company is looking at the impact of virtual reality on sport, said Watson. “With the appropriate VR experience we could bring football matches to life,” he said. However, he said, the technology still has to develop to enable people to more in real time in a virtual environment.Watson also said that deeper social engagement would be part of the future of TV.“How can we use a companion develop smell and texture that really bring experiences to life,” he said.On the need for further technology improvements to the online viewing experience, Watson said it was important to enable Apple and Google to eliminate long buffering periods on adaptive bitrate video and to optimise the use of unicast and multicast. He said there was a need for a sub-two second channel change.Watson said there was also an urgent need to work on “tech literacy” to bring on a cohort of trained technologists tomorrow.TV has delivered quarter-on-quarter successive growth, according to Watson.BT now has as many BT TV customers joining and watching online as it does via broadcast, Watson said.read more

Louis James Senior Metals Investment Strategist Casey Research Dear Subscribers, We know that many of you are interested in different areas of investing, so we thought we’d share the insights of Doug Casey and his chief investment strategists delivered at the recent Vancouver Resource Investment Conference. This includes remarks by Doug himself, Jeff Clark of BIG GOLD, Marin Katusa of Casey Energy Dividends, and yours truly, editor of International Speculator. Doug works through a large number of questions of the sort we get from readers every day, and our panel takes them on, one by one. The focus is on metals and energy, but the topics cover much more ground. We must caution that our current recommendations on some of the specific companies mentioned may be different now, so we encourage you to consider the advice and other comments on a conceptual level. That said, we hope you enjoy the discussion and benefit from the information. Sincerely,read more

Afraid you won’t have enough to retire comfortably? You’re not alone, and a debt-fueled lifestyle is often a big part of the problem. As the 2014 EBRI Retirement Confidence Survey notes: Fifty-eight percent of workers and 44 percent of retirees report having a problem with their level of debt. Furthermore, 24 percent of workers and 17 percent of retirees indicate that their current level of debt is higher than it was five years ago. Cost of living and day-to-day expenses head the list of reasons why workers do not save (or save more) for retirement, with 53 percent of workers citing this factor. Retiring rich means you can maintain a comfortable lifestyle without constantly worrying about money. The plan for getting there isn’t complicated: save more; spend less; invest well. That doesn’t mean it’s not difficult. This might sound like a no-brainer, but it’s downright impossible to save more unless you spend less—and for some folks that means a lot less. Sad to say, many baby boomers were never taught to live below their means. Quite the contrary; the credit card culture that blossomed as boomers moved into adulthood encouraged them to spend, spend, and spend some more. If you don’t have the cash, just charge it! This is no way to get rich. Most boomers knew they should save early on, but many kept putting it off until later. Unfortunately, those who let “later” run up against their 60th birthday are screwed.The Not So Mysterious First Step Anyone who doesn’t want to be screwed should begin the first step toward saving today: get out of debt. It might take three months, three years, or a decade (hopefully that means you’re 30). Whatever your time frame, this demands a change in attitude and lifestyle. For people used to using debt for instant gratification, it can be a challenge on par with quitting smoking or hiking Mt. Everest. But remember, some people do quit smoking, and others do, in fact, hike Mt. Everest.Turning Awareness into Action People are generally aware that they need to up their savings if they want to retire comfortably. The EBRI report states that “20 percent say they need to save between 20 and 29 percent of their income and another 22 percent indicate they need to save 30 percent or more.” If you run the projections and realize you don’t have enough money saved, you have three options: Work longer, get out of debt, and accumulate as much as you can. Radically adjust your lifestyle. Say you’re already retired and lived a $100,000-lifestyle during your working years. If you haven’t accumulated a large enough nest egg to generate that kind of income, adjust your lifestyle now before you find yourself in your 80s or 90s, depending on Social Security or family. Resign yourself to working the rest of your life in order to survive. Option 3 is no laughing matter—and for many folks it will be reality. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that workforce participation for people age 75 and over will rise to 10.5% by 2022, up from 7.6% in 2012. For the 65-74 age group, it projects that the rate will jump to 31.9%, up from 26.8% in 2012 and 20.4% in 2002. If you’re still healthy and sharp at age 80 and want to work, great! It’s one thing to be an octogenarian who still oversees the family business a few days a week, but working the Home Depot checkout line at age 80 because you have bills to pay is a whole other matter. Sadly, I suspect the latter is becoming more and more common.Retirement Is a New Phenomenon As a life phase, retirement is still in its infancy. Unless you hail from a particularly well-to-do family, your parents or grandparents were among the first generation able to retire and spend their golden years as they pleased. These folks lived through the Great Depression, or their parents did, and they understood how to stretch a dollar and save. Baby boomers, on the other hand, faced huge social pressures to buy the biggest McMansion they could afford and trade in their two or three cars regularly. They also raised children when attending college had become the norm—something essential to staying in the middle class—but when the cost of college had also shot up. Many boomer parents have taken on student debt for their children that they can ill afford. While the intention behind education debt differs from that of a car loan for a Lexus, both have to be repaid the same way: with money. All this put boomers at a huge disadvantage in the race to retirement.How Much Money Is Enough? The Center for Retirement Research has concluded that the savings rate over one’s working life (beginning at age 20) should be 11% for low-income earners; 15% for middle-income earners; and 16% or above for high-income earners. The reason for the reduced recommendations is that Social Security provides lower-income earners with a larger percentage of their earnings. If, however, one waits until age 50-59 to start saving, it recommends increasing the savings rate to 35% for lower-income, 29% for middle-income, and 30% for higher-income earners. There are clear signs that people are simply not doing this. Most 401(k)s, for example, are woefully underfunded. A 2013 Fidelity survey on 401(k) programs indicated that the average 50-59-year-old has a 401(k) balance of $255,000. That might sound like a lot of money, but the truth is, over the 40 or so nonworking years you may have after retirement, $255,000 won’t stretch all that far. You’re not the “average 50-59-year-old,” though. No one is. So we’ve developed a Retirement Income Calculator which you can download and use to make your own personalized income projections. Knowing where you stand will either put your mind at ease or remind you that now is the time to make a new plan. And keep in mind that no matter your age or the size of your nest egg, our Bulletproof Portfolio can help you maximize what you do have. You can learn more about our Bulletproof recommendations and access all of our special reports by signing up for a no-risk trial subscription to Money Forever today.On the Lighter Side Monday was the Marine Corps’ birthday. Semper Fi to all. Jo and I are in Indiana this week, visiting the grandchildren. Brock and Braidyn are now both in school, and I love helping with homework. Seems like yesterday I had them on my shoulder burping them after a bottle. Where the heck did the time go? Our daughter told us to bring our heavy coats. The cold has been a good reminder of why we moved to warmer weather. If I was meant to be out in the cold, I would have more fur. A reminder to follow us on Twitter @millersmoney, and finally… Some basic truths about coffee: Until next week…read more

North Carolina lawmakers have introduced legislation that aims to establish more teaching hospitals in rural areas. The legislation directs the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services to make recommendations establishing incentives to expand medical education in the state’s rural counties.Lawmakers would also like DHHS to identify medical centers that are ideal candidates to become teaching hospitals.According to The Winston-Salem Journal, the incentives would include loosening Medicare restrictions on which hospitals can provide medical teaching. The bill would also seek enticements for medical residents and students to remain in those rural areas after they graduate.The legislation is being submitted at a time when rural hospitals are struggling financially with reduced Medicare reimbursements.North Carolina currently has four main teaching hospitals, all located in urban centers.read more

Several cells have moved onshore with embedded rotation. Tornadoes are still possible across eastern North Carolina through Friday, where a Tornado Watch is in effect until further notice.Storm Surge Warnings continue for more than 350 miles of coastline from South Santee River, South Carolina, to Duck, North Carolina, including the Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds and the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers. Flood Warnings are in effect for multiple rivers, including the Pee Dee River At Cheraw in South Carolina where 10 to 20 inches of rainfall is likely due to Florence.As of 12 p.m. Friday, Florence was a Category 1 storm with winds up to 80 mph. The storm is forecast to continue slowing down as it encounters slower winds aloft. Florence will continue to weaken as it interacts with cooler waters due to upwelling near the coastline of North Carolina.The wind risk from Florence is greatest along the coast and along the northwestern side of the storm. Wind speeds are increasing in the Pee Dee region of South Carolina, and will move into the Mid-Carolina and Low-County regions on Saturday. Sustained winds up to 45 mph are possible, with gusts up to 60-70 mph. The wind damage risk from tropical-storm force winds will spread inland, likely as far as Charlotte and as far south as Charleston.Life-threatening storm surge of 9 to 13 feet is expected from Cape Fear to Cape Lookout, including the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers. The storm surge is likely to be in the 6 to 9-foot range from North Myrtle Beach to Cape Fear, and Cape Lookout to Ocracoke Inlet. Four to 6 feet of storm surge is forecast from South Santee River to North Myrtle Beach, and Ocracoke Inlet to North Carolina-Virginia Border. Two to 4 feet of water above normally dry ground can be anticipated from Edisto Beach to South Santee River.Catastrophic inland flooding will be a growing concern as Florence moves inland. Several Flash Flood Warnings are in effect across a large area of the Mid-Atlantic and Southern Appalachians.In some areas, the heavy rain risk could continue through next Tuesday. Due to the slow nature of the storm, Florence could produce up to 24 inches of rain near and north of where it comes ashore over a three or four-day period. Rainfall totals further inland may also be this high over a five-day period as the storm slowly weakens and meanders through North or South Carolina. Amounts this high could not only cause flash flooding, many rivers are likely to experience major – possibly even catastrophic -flooding for several days following Florence.Florence will continue to meander to the southwest, which means the potential for high winds and extreme rainfall could expand to include more of South Carolina.The South Carolina Emergency Information Network will continue to monitor the progress of Hurricane Florence and provide updates on public radio stations throughout the state, and on the @SCPublicRadio social media accounts. Hurricane Florence has slowed and is now crawling to the west at 6 mph. Life-threatening storm surge, inland flooding and wind damage are imminent along the coast of North Carolina from Wilmington to the Outer Banks and stretching to northern portions of South Carolina through the day on Friday. Florence is forecast to move southwest along the coastline before turning to the northeast on Sunday.An additional 15 inches of rain is expected for portions of southeastern North Carolina. As Florence moves inland, heavy rain and potential flooding will be a growing concern. By Saturday afternoon, rain will have entered the Pee Dee region of South Carolina with 4-10 inches forecasted.read more

Learn how to successfully navigate family business dynamics and build businesses that excel. July 3, 2018 Image credit: Google via BI Google Reportedly Allows Outside App Developers to Read People’s Gmails –shares Next Article Gmail 3 min read This story originally appeared on Business Insider Employees working for hundreds of software developers are reading the private messages of Gmail users, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.A year ago, Google promised to stop scanning the inboxes of Gmail users, but the company has not done much to protect Gmail inboxes obtained by outside software developers, according to the newspaper. Gmail users who signed up for “email-based services” like “shopping price comparisons” and “automated travel-itinerary planners” are most at risk of having their private messages read, The Journal reported.Hundreds of app developers electronically “scan” inboxes of the people who signed up for some of these programs, and in some cases, employees do the reading, the paper reported. Google declined to comment.The revelation comes at a bad time for Google and Gmail, the world’s largest email service, with 1.4 billion users. Top tech companies are under pressure in the United States and Europe to do more to protect user privacy and be more transparent about any parties with access to people’s data. The increased scrutiny follows the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which a data firm was accused of misusing the personal information of more than 80 million Facebook users in an attempt to sway elections.It’s not news that Google and many top email providers enable outside developers to access users’ inboxes. In most cases, the people who signed up for the price-comparison deals or other programs agreed to provide access to their inboxes as part of the opt-in process.Gmail’s opt-in alert spells out generally what a user is agreeing to.Image credit: GoogleIn Google’s case, outside developers must pass a vetting process, and as part of that, Google ensures they have an acceptable privacy agreement, The Journal reported, citing a Google representative.What is unclear is how closely these outside developers adhere to their agreements and whether Google does anything to ensure they do, as well as whether Gmail users are fully aware that individual employees may be reading their emails, as opposed to an automated system, the report says.Mikael Berner, the CEO of Edison Software, a Gmail developer that offers a mobile app for organizing email, told The Journal that its employees had read emails from hundreds of Gmail users as part of an effort to build a new feature. An executive at another company said employees’ reading of emails had become “common practice.”Companies that spoke to The Journal confirmed that the practice was specified in their user agreements and said they had implemented strict rules for employees regarding the handling of email.It’s interesting to note that, judging from The Journal’s story, very little indicates that Google is doing anything different from Microsoft or other top email providers. According to the newspaper, nothing in Microsoft or Yahoo’s policy agreements explicitly allows people to read others’ emails. Add to Queue Greg Sandoval Free Webinar | July 31: Secrets to Running a Successful Family Business The outside app companies receive access to messages from Gmail users who signed up for things like price-comparison services or automated travel-itinerary planners. Register Now »read more

Attend this free webinar and learn how you can maximize efficiency while getting the most critical things done right. Add to Queue Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. –shares November 20, 2013 Brian Patrick Eha Bitcoin is everywhere these days. In China, which now accounts for 50 percent of the daily global trade in bitcoins, its price has skyrocketed. In the U.S., it was the subject Tuesday of the second of two U.S. Senate hearings. Silicon Valley is betting millions on it, and Ben Bernanke, the top central banker in the U.S., said this week that unregulated virtual currencies “may hold long-term promise.”Not long ago, most people were dismissing Bitcoin as merely a passing fad or a hobby for crypto-geeks, if they knew about it at all. Its quixotic nature was taken as a given, as was its ultimate fate: failure to change the status quo, followed by irrelevance. It wasn’t until Bitcoin’s exchange value topped $200 in April 2013 that most mainstream media outlets first took notice.But just because there’s more information about Bitcoin out there now doesn’t mean you should believe everything you read. Read on to get answers to three major misconceptions about Bitcoin, the world’s most popular digital currency.1. Bitcoin is nothing but digital cash for criminals.Bitcoin first came to public attention in 2011 as the coin of the realm for Silk Road, an online black market for illegal drugs, fake IDs and other illicit goods and services. In early October, the Federal Bureau of Investigation shut down Silk Road and apprehended its alleged creator, Ross William Ulbricht, in San Francisco. The price of Bitcoin dropped sharply but quickly recovered, and has since attained heights that would have been unfathomable only weeks ago. And yet, even since that bust, the media has lost no opportunity to tie Bitcoin to Silk Road in report after report.Related: SecondMarket Establishes New Bitcoin Trust for Accredited InvestorsMeanwhile, however, there is a growing ecosystem of legitimate Bitcoin companies — many with investment funding — and businesses accepting Bitcoin as legal tender. Plug and Play Tech Center, an early investor in PayPal, is starting an accelerator program exclusively for Bitcoin-related startups. Between April and June 2013, investors gave a total of $12 million to Bitcoin startups, according to research firm CB Insights. If anything, the pace of funding seems to be accelerating. Lightspeed Venture Partners, working with its Chinese counterpart, just invested $5 million in BTC China, the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange.Even members of the federal government are pulling back from characterizations of Bitcoin as exclusively the preserve of criminals. “Exploitation by malicious actors is a problem faced by all types of financial services, and is not unique to virtual currency systems,” Mythili Raman, the acting assistant attorney general of the Justice Department’s criminal division, said Monday in testimony for the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing on virtual currencies.2. Bitcoin transactions are anonymous and untraceable.From its inception, Bitcoin has been associated with privacy, even anonymity, because you don’t have to provide a Social Security number, bank account or other identifying details in order to transact in Bitcoin. But that doesn’t mean your use of Bitcoin is a big secret. In fact, every Bitcoin transaction ever is recorded publicly on something called the blockchain. This public log prevents fraudulent activity such as people spending the same bitcoins twice.And while it’s difficult to trace these public transactions back to the real identities of users, it is not impossible. Researchers from the University of California, San Diego and George Mason University recently created a map of the Bitcoin economy that could be used by law enforcement to track the flow of bitcoins from criminal sources to legitimate companies such as Bitstamp and other exchange services. In the U.S., exchanges are required to obtain identifying personal information from their users, so a subpoena could reveal a criminal’s real identity.Related: Bitcoin Startups Get Their Own Silicon Valley AcceleratorThe fact that exchanges require users to verify their identities also makes it difficult to cash out one’s ill-gotten gains without getting caught. As Bitcoin developer Jeff Garzik has said, “Attempting major illicit transactions with Bitcoin, given existing statistical analysis techniques deployed in the field by law enforcement, is pretty damned dumb.”3. Mt. Gox is the go-to place for the value of Bitcoin.For a long time, Tokyo-based exchange Mt. Gox was the top Bitcoin trading platform in the world. This fact has led many casual observers and reporters to cite its price as the price of Bitcoin during various swings in the market. There is just one problem with that practice: for months now, the Mt. Gox price has been artificially inflated.Why the inflation? It has to do with recent difficulties in withdrawing U.S. funds from Mt. Gox. Because users have found themselves unable to pull their dollars out of the exchange, they are forced to buy bitcoins with those dollars and then transfer the coins elsewhere. Those trades have driven the price on Mt. Gox beyond the price found on Bitstamp, Coinbase and most other exchanges. One way to verify this discrepancy is to visit Bitcoin Average and click the button that says “ignore MTGox for USD/EUR/GBP.”BTC China, which now processes more than one-third of the world’s daily Bitcoin transactions, and is open only to Chinese customers, is also overheated. It is somewhat misleading to quote the global price of Bitcoin by simply converting the price in yuan on BTC China to U.S. dollars, because that value is elevated beyond what is achievable on exchanges that transact in dollars.Related: Bitcoin Hits New All-Time High Ahead of Hearings 5 min read Register Now » Next Article 3 Big Misconceptions About Bitcoin Finance Free Webinar | Sept 5: Tips and Tools for Making Progress Toward Important Goalsread more

Reviewed by James Ives, M.Psych. (Editor)Feb 12 2019Rare mutations in the NTHL1 gene, previously associated with colorectal cancer, also cause breast cancer and other types of cancer. Researchers from Radboud university medical center, Leiden University Medical Center and the Princess Máxima Center in the Netherlands report this new multi-tumor syndrome, in collaboration with international colleagues, in Cancer Cell. Nicoline Hoogerbrugge, professor of Hereditary Cancer at Radboud university medical center: “We presumed to know all multi-tumor syndromes, but we have taken yet another step in identifying cancer genes.”Previously, Hoogerbrugge and colleagues showed that mutations in the NTHL1 gene lead to intestinal polyps that may develop into colorectal cancer. However, they observed that patients with mutations in this gene often have other types of cancer as well. In their publication, the researchers describe 17 families in which members of a single generation had mutations in the NTHL1 gene. Half of these patients developed various types of cancer during their lives, with breast cancer being particularly common.Mutations in the NTHL1 gene are very rare. A mutation in the NTHL1 gene only leads to cancer when the mutation is inherited from both parents. The researchers estimate that this is the case in about 1 in 115,000 people. The syndrome is difficult to detect because it only leads to cancer in a single generation of a family. Hoogerbrugge: “Currently, we already test patients with many intestinal polyps for mutations in the NTHL1 gene, but now we know that we should do this for more patients. Over the long term we want to screen for mutations in the NTHL1 gene in patients diagnosed with multiple cancers, as well as in patients that have brothers or sisters with multiple cancers.”Improved characterization of patients with mutations in the NTHL1 gene may lead to better assessment of their lifetime risk to develop certain types of cancer. “It is important for patients to be aware of their risk for breast cancer and also for me as a physician, so I can make recommendations,” says Maartje Nielsen, clinical geneticist at the Leiden University Medical Center. She recommends that patients with mutations in the NTHL1 gene should be screened for various types of cancer, including colorectal cancer and breast cancer.Mutation patternRelated StoriesHow cell-free DNA can be targeted to prevent spread of tumorsNanoparticles used to deliver CRISPR gene editing tools into the cellTrends in colonoscopy rates not aligned with increase in early onset colorectal cancerThe researchers used a new method to determine that NTHL1 mutations also cause breast cancer and other types of cancer. This method is based on the fact that mutations in the NTHL1 gene cause a specific pattern of mutations in the DNA of the tumor. Because this pattern only occurs in tumors of patients with an NTHL1 mutation, and not in tumors from other patients, the researchers were able to link this pattern to the disrupted NTHL1 gene. In the future, this method can be used to detect new genetic causes of cancer. Roland Kuiper, molecular geneticist at the Princess Máxima Center: “More than 30 such mutation patterns are already described, which are not only specific for NTHL1 defects. If all the tumors in a patient with multiple types of cancer have the same mutation pattern, this is a strong indication that there is a genetic cause. This means that all these tumors developed in the same way.” Richarda de Voer, molecular biologist at Radboud university medical center, adds: “It has become increasingly difficult to find new cancer genes. By searching for mutation patterns in patients, we are able to take the next step in determining the genetic cause in more cancer patients.”NTHL1NTHL1 is involved in DNA repair. It recognizes a specific form of DNA damage. If a mutation occurs in the NTHL1 gene, there is no NTHL1 protein. Consequently, this specific form of DNA damage is not recognized and not repaired, leading to an accumulation of mutations, which causes cancer. Due to mutations in the NTHL1 gene, errors in the DNA where a ‘C’ is replaced by a ‘T’, are not corrected. These errors occur at specific locations in the DNA, resulting in a recognizable mutation pattern. Source:https://www.radboudumc.nl/en/read more

July 24, 2018 Published on COMMENT COMMENTS SHARE SHARE EMAIL A constable died and another was injured in stone pelting on Tuesday, as a State-wide protest called by Maratha outfits seeking reservation for the community turned violent. Agitators clashed with police and torched vehicles in Aurangabad and adjoining districts of Maharashtra.On Monday, a 27-year-old protester, Kakasaheb Shinde, had jumped to his death from a bridge in Aurangabad, after which the Maratha Kranti Morcha, which is spearheading the agitation, called for a bandh on Tuesday. The outfit has also given a call for a Mumbai bandh on Wednesday.In Aurangabad, protesters set fire to public vehicles. Tyres and effigies were burnt in front of a State Government office in Osmanabad, and trains were blocked in Parbhani district.A section of the Maratha community is incensed with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who had refused to participate in the Mahapuja at the Vithhal temple in Pandharpur on the occasion of Ashadi Ekadashi, which fell on Monday.Ashadi Ekadashi is celebrated across Maharashtra, and the Chief Minister leading the Mahapuja at the temple is an age-old custom in the State. But Fadnavis declined the invitation this year, citing security inconveniences to pilgrims. Fadnavis had alleged that some members of the community were planning violence at Pandharpur town on an auspicious day. Ravindra Patil, coordinator of the pro-reservation outfits, said the protest would continue till Fadnavis apologises to the Maratha community. SHAREread more

Published on March 29, 2019 SHARE SHARE SHARE EMAIL COMMENT Delhi The Supreme Court on Friday granted two more months to the Special Investigation Team to complete its probe into 186 cases of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.A bench comprising Justices SA Bobde and S Abdul Nazeer extended the time after the SIT informed it that more than 50 per cent of the work has been done and it wanted two more months to complete the investigation.The apex court also issued notice to parties on a plea by petitioner S Gurlad Singh Kahlon, a member of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee, seeking inquiry into role of 62 policemen named in the riots.The apex court had on January 11 last year constituted the SIT headed by former Delhi High Court judge Justice S N Dhingra and comprising retired IPS officer Rajdeep Singh and serving IPS officer Abhishek Dular to supervise further probe into the 186 riots cases, in which closure reports had been filed earlier.However, the SIT presently has only two members as Singh had declined to be a part of the team on “personal grounds”.The top court had appointed the three-member SIT after the Ministry of Home Affairs and counsel for petitioner S G S Kahlon arrived at a consensus with regard to the persons who could be appointed in the fresh SIT.Large-scale riots had broken out in the national capital following the assassination of the then prime minister Indira Gandhi by her two Sikh security guards on October 31, 1984. The violence had claimed 2,733 lives in Delhi alone.The court had said the previous SIT did not carry out further probe into the 186 cases and had directed setting up of a fresh SIT comprising a former high court judge and two police officers.Justice Dhingra, who had retired from the Delhi High Court, had dealt with several high-profile cases including the 2001 Parliament Attack case as a trial judge. As the judge of the trial court, he had dealt with many of the 1984 riot cases, and his verdicts had resulted in conviction in 16 cases.On August 16, 2017, the apex court had appointed a supervisory panel to examine the earlier SIT’s decision to close 241 cases. The Centre had said that out of 250 riots cases which were probed by that SIT, closure reports were filed in 241. It had said some cases were still being investigated by the SIT, and two by the CBI.The earlier SIT was headed by Pramod Asthana, an IPS officer of 1986 batch, and comprised retired district and sessions judge Rakesh Kapoor and additional deputy commissioner of the Delhi Police Kumar Gyanesh.Kahlon had told the court that a total of 293 riot-related cases were taken up for scrutiny by the earlier SIT which later decided to close 199 of them. Kahlon had sought the top court’s direction for setting up another SIT to ensure speedy justice to the riot victims. courts and legal unrest, conflicts and war COMMENTSread more

Related News Tags / Keywords: Tanjak , Installation , Sultan Abdullah , Yang di Pertuan Agong {{category}} {{time}} {{title}} Nation 26 May 2019 King vows to carry on Sultan Ahmad Shah’s legacy Related News Nation 24 May 2019 Sultan Ahmad Shah laid to rest Tunku Azizah with the “tanjak” or royal headgear worn by the late Sultan Ahmad Shah during his installation. Tunku Azizah said she had also found the royal “muskat” (coat) worn by both Sultan Ahmad Shah and her father Almarhum Al-Mutawakkil Alallah Sultan Iskandar.”I am glad to have found all these items and I will suggest that the King wear the ‘tanjak’ as it is a historical item,” she said. Nation 23 May 2019 Sultan Ahmad Shah laid to rest at Pekan Royal Mausoleum PEKAN: The Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah may wear a decades-old “tanjak” or royal headgear at his installation on July 30.This particular “tanjak” has historical significance as it was once worn by the King’s late father, Almarhum Paduka Ayahanda Sultan Ahmad Shah at his installation as the seventh Yang di-Pertuan Agong in 1979.Raja Permaisuri Agong Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah said she had been looking for the headgear for some time and found it in the safe possession of the Sultan Abu Bakar Museum here on Saturday (July 13).Also found were clothing belonging to Sultan Ahmad Shah and a collection of the royal families’ photos.read more